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Cyber Attack may Have Taken Al-Qaida Offline

Cyber Attack may Have Taken Al-Qaida OfflineMilitary.comA minor Web site posted a message in an online forum claiming "the media arena is witnessing a vicious attack by the cross and its helpers on the jihadi media castles." "It sure looks like a takedown," said former State Department counter-terrorism ...

US fears al Qaeda cyber attack on New YorkThe Express TribuneNEW YORK: US law enforcement and counterterrorism officials are trying to figure out the significance of recent occurrences on websites believed to have close links to al Qaeda, including a graphic some fear could be an attack threat directed at New ...The Express Tribune

Is Cyber Warfare Imminent, Or Is the Hype Overblown?WebProNewsAs a result of this influx of attacks, Congress is currently weighing legislation that would attempt to prevent cyber warfare. In fact, more than fifty bills have been introduced in Congress toward this effort. Should cybersecurity be a top priority ...

Al-Qaida's online forums go dark for more than weekMinneapolis Star TribuneNo one has taken responsibility; some experts say it looks like a cyber attack, perhaps by a government or hacker. WASHINGTON - Al-Qaida's main Internet forums have been offline for more than a week in what experts say is the longest sustained outage ...

Cyber-defence slow due to generation gap: US officialPhysOrg.comAnalyists work at the National Cybersecurity & Communications Integration Center (NCCIC) in Arlington, Virginia, in 2010. Sluggish moves to counter the rising threat of cyber-attacks can be blamed on a generation of policymakers out of touch with rapid ...PhysOrg.com

UK more resilient to cyber attack thanks to Queen's UniversityEMSNow (press release)Research by Queen's University Belfast into making the UK more resilient to a cyber attack has been recognised through the award of an 'Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber SecurityResearch' status by GCHQ in partnership with the Research Councils' ...

Cyber Defence Summit gets under wayOman TribuneMUSCAT Regional collaboration in the face of a potential cyber attack was the main topic of theCyber Defence Summit that began on Monday. Endorsed by ITU-IMPACT, the largest cyber security alliance of its kind with 137 members, the summit is the ...

Arlington Thwarts $1.8 Million Cyber AttackNBC 5 Dallas-Fort WorthBy Mola Lenghi Arlington city staff foiled a cyber attack that was set up to steal nearly $2 million in city funds. City spokeswoman Rebecca Rodriguez said sophisticated online attack targeted $1.8 million in city money. The city's treasury staff ...

EU plans tougher punishment for hackers – and their bossesRegisterBy Out-Law.com • Get more from this author The European Parliament's Civil Liberties Committee overwhelmingly voted to approve proposals to criminalise certain activity relating tocyber attacks last week. The proposals contain plans to make specified ...

Centres of Excellence in Cyber Security Research namedBCSGovernment Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) has named the eight universities that are to become the first Centres of Excellence in Cyber Security Research. The eight academic hubs chosen are the University of Bristol, Imperial College London, ...

Countdown to a digital Pearl HarborWTOP(WTOP/JJ Green) WASHINGTON - Despite numerous warnings from top intelligence officials, the US government doesn't have a plan yet to confront a massive, malicious cyber-threat. And the window of opportunity to develop one may have already closed.

Clarke Warns of Cyber AttackSupply Chain DigitalRichard Clarke, the former counter-terrorism advisor to Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, has made a staggering new claim this week that the United States in currently under acyber attack from China. What's worse, he suggests, ...

ManTech wraps up purchase of cybersecurity software companyWashington TechnologyHBGary, which has customers in the financial services, energy, critical infrastructure and technology sectors, will become part of a new commercial business unit within ManTech's Mission, Cyber, & Intelligence Solutions group led by Senior Vice ...

IT Must Change Security Strategies to Keep Up With CybercriminalsPCWorldThe cyber arms race will lead to a cyber cold war. Nations are already in the process of developing more sophisticated ways to attack via cyberspace and will improve their capabilities in the coming years. Nations that haven't already developed this ...

Al Qaeda online silence followed by chilling warningExaminer.comApril 2, 2012 Cyber security experts suspect that popular Al Qaeda Internet forums downed for about two weeks may have been the target of a cyberattack. Cyber-terrorism experts say it is the longest sustained outage of the web sites since they were ...

Al Qaeda's Online Forums Go Dark, but the Reason Is UnclearJakarta GlobeThere remains uncertainty over whether the recent outages were caused by a cyber attack at all, and some skeptics note that some prominent Al Qaeda forums remain online. US government agencies, including US Cyber Command, had no role in the outages, ...

Al-Qaeda websites downBrisbane TimesNo one has claimed responsibility for disabling the sites but the breadth and duration of the outages have prompted speculation the forums have been taken down in a cyber attack - launched perhaps by a government or hacking group.

Al-Qaeda's online forums go dark for longest periodNewstrack IndiaNobody has yet claimed responsibility for disabling the websites, but the duration of the outages have led some experts to conclude that the forums have been taken down in a cyber attacklaunched perhaps by a government, a government-backed ...

Generation Gap Blamed for Low Global Cybersecurity CommitmentsIndustryWeekAgence France-Presse Sluggish moves to counter the rising threat of cyber-attacks can be blamed on a generation of policymakers out of touch with rapid technological change, a senior US official said April 2. "The truth is there are a lot of senior ...

How China steals US secretsEconomic TimesWASHINGTON: For the last two months, senior government officials and private-sector experts have paraded before Congress and described in alarming terms a silent threat: cyber attacks carried out by foreign governments. Robert S. Mueller III, ...

Cyber Weapons | Security AffairsBy paganinipThe two expert define “cyber weapon” as “a computer code that is used, or designed to be used, with the aim of threatening or causing physical, functional, or mental harm to structures, systems, or living beings“. Over the years many ... To this category tools and software to generate traffic to overload a system create damage to its services with a temporary effect (e.g. Denial of Service attack) without damaging. Medium .... From → Cyber warfare, Intelligence,Security. No comments yet ...Security Affairs

Former DHS And Bank Of America Exec Greg Garcia Talks Mobile ...By Brynn KoeppenWe asked Garcia to discuss the evolution of cyber security threats, how the mobile frontier is impacting cyber warfare, as well as what work still needs to be done in the government contracting community to limit cyber breaches. WashingtonExec: Please tell us a little about your... In 2007 when I was with the Department of Homeland a video was leaked to CNN that showed a test of a cyber attack on an electric generator on the power grid. The generator was not ON the power grid, ...News & Insight for the DC Area Executive

Cyber-defence slow due to generation gap: U.S. official | The Raw ...By Agence France-Presse“The truth is there are a lot of senior officials in many countries who barely even know how to use an email,” Rose Gottemoeller, US acting under-secretary for arms control and international security, said during a visit to Estonia. “The change will come with the new ... has bitter experience in the field. A politically charged dispute with its Soviet-era master Moscow in 2007 was marked by a blistering cyber-attack blamed on Russian hackers — though the Kremlin denied any involvement.The Raw Story

April 3, 2012 – Military Affairs - Iran Daily BriefBy adminIRNA reports that its news network service was subjected to “severe cyber-attack during the Majlis elections” – Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) has reported that its website was subjected to “severe” cyber-attacks during the final days of the Iranian year 1390 and ... IRNA reported that “IT experts identified the sources of sabotage, some of which were from inside the country… and identities of attackers have been submitted to Iran's cyber security officials for further investigation.” ...Iran Daily Brief

Cyber Security Strategy - PDFThe world is growing on a powerful dependence on Internet, so governments, leading organizations and business leaders are having difficulties to determine the amount of damage and risk they could face by cyber-attacks and how to be ready to ... plan against the rising tide ofcyber attackers. Cyber-Attacks: First, what does cyber means? It means "the electronic medium in which online communication takes place" simple the Web or the internet in general. Now, what cyber-attack is?PDF PodCast - PDFCast.org

Chemical Facility Security News: ICS-CERT Publishes Another ...By PJCoyleToday the folks at DHS ICS-CERT published another advisory on Invensys Wonderware (the last one was published just last Friday) and made available an updated version of their Cyber Security Evaluation Tool (CSET). ... Until ISCD gets the necessary expertise in-house to do a real ICS cybersecurity assessment (unlikely any time soon) or signs a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with ICS-CERT to have them conduct that portion of the site security plan review, this will ...Chemical Facility Security News

Malware Attacks on Korean News Websites | The PeninsulaBy Chad O'CarrollTags: cyber attack, social media. Tweet. By Chad O'Carroll. This week The Daily NK, an online newspaper dedicated to covering North Korea from a human rights perspective, suffered aMalware attack. It was by no means the first malware ... But without having the actual malicious scripts to compare (and an IT security expert to analyze them), there is no way of knowing if the Daily NK code construes either a specific threat to the Korea watcher community or instead is something more ...The Peninsula

How China Steels Our Secrets – Trade ReformBy Ellen CroibierCategorized | National Security ... Obama must. Richard A. Clarke, the special adviser to the president for cybersecurity from 2001 to 2003, is the author of “Cyber War: The Next Threat to National Security and What to Do About It.” Share ...Trade Reform

The Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights: Visa, Global Payments ...By Zacks Equity ResearchWhile Global Payments has been strictly recommended to revise its cyber protection policies and systems, card giants have been advised by the federal officials to enhance their securitycompliances in order to avoid another data attack in ...Zacks Investment Research - All...